Oh, and starting on Thursday is the International Mathematica User Conference, which will show many advances in the core Mathematica technology on which Wolfram|Alpha is based.
In May we launched Wolfram|Alpha as a major website. But the website is really just the tip of an iceberg. Wolfram|Alpha is a whole technology that can be deployed and used in all sorts of ways.

This week we’re seeing some of the diversity of what can be done. The API as a tool for developers. The iPhone app as a consumer product. And Homework Day as a community event that Wolfram|Alpha enables.

My approach to managing R&D is to maintain a portfolio of ongoing projects, short-term and long-term. There’s an amazing amount in the pipeline for Wolfram|Alpha, which will emerge on timescales from weeks to years.

I’m very proud of the achievements of our various teams that we’re seeing this week. The diversity of what’s becoming possible with Wolfram|Alpha is surprising even us. There are a lot of very exciting things to come…

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This service has been supremely useful! My school uses Mathematica, but I don’t own it personally. It’s quite handy to be able to run simpler calculations using Alpha from my computer. Keep up the great work!

Historically we have not thought too much of ubiquitous scientific computing. With the API, I see a vast variety of combined applications of the knowledge engine with specialized pre- and postprocessing, all widely accessible, if we want.

Just adding to the other requests for a Wolfram|Alpha application for Android. I know it must be annoying to have just developed one app you’re proud of only to have a bunch of people request the same app on another platform, but please do it anyway!

I too would like to have this app for Android. However, seeing the price tag of the iPhone version, I don’t think it will happen anytime soon, especially since Android has at the moment far fewer mobile phones. So the price might be even higher than $50 for the Android platform. Even so, could we get an official statement regarding this request?

I would also like to see an android application for this website. Android is a growing o s with, what someone said earlier lots of interested users. I’m using my android phone right now i’m not even typing I’m using the speech function to type the words. Awesome !

I think android is the fastest growing mobile OS and is popular among the geeky type rather than iPhone (which btw is used mostly by “art” type of folk). Wolfram should considering porting the WA app to Anroid on priority.

Another vote for Android! I would note that making an iPhone app was a mistake in the first place: from what I see from various forums, you will get over an order of magnitude more Android users than those with iPhones.